(ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D) Vote Against Schlosser Vote Against Y

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(ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.) Vote Against Schlosser! Vote Against Yale! Letterpress broadside, 16 1/2 x 11 inches; folds, minor wear, unrelated pencil notes from 1914 on verso. Np, [1910]

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A remarkable survival from FDR's first political campaign in 1910. He was an unknown 28-year-old Wall Street lawyer when asked to run for a New York State Senate seat on the strength of his distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt's name. He won the seat after a strong anti-corruption campaign. This broadside implores that "Putnam County needs a clean sweep and New Men at Old Albany. . . . Progressive men are wanted to clean conditions in Legislature." On verso is a pencil diagram for a 3-color photography system, unsigned but dated 24 November 1914. Not in OCLC, no other copies traced.